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Foreign Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 214. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.comrosaryinayear or text RIY to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we'll be praying with the first two Sorrowful Mysteries, the Agony in the Garden and the Scourging at the Pillar. Today we will be beginning our second and final time through praying our decades, very specifically focusing on being aware of the person to whom we are praying and who is looking at us. So today we're really going to be focusing on the Father again. And so to aid our prayer in our being aware of and being in the presence of our Heavenly Father. As we pray today, let's go ahead and pull again from some of Jesus own Prayer to the Father. I'm particularly struck as always, by Jesus prayer to the Father before the Tomb of Lazarus. You hear me. I know you always hear me. The Father is with you. He hears you. He always hears you. I'm reminded of Jesus words about our Heavenly Father spoken in His Sermon on the Mount that to our Heavenly Father all the hairs on our head are counted. Like he knows us. He knows you. He sees you. He hears you. And Jesus shares a story of like what human Father, if their son asks for a fish, is going to give him a snake? How much more does your Heavenly Father want to give you good gifts? Your Heavenly Father, he is good. He knows you. He loves you. He is good. So we bring to him our hearts, bring to him our needs, aware that he hears us. He always hears us. Perhaps some of us are with our Lord in His passion, in his agony. So we can go to him like Jesus did in the garden and say, my Father, my Father, my Father. And if we're struggling, if we're not aware of his presence, if we're suffering, we can also echo Jesus words. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me. But these words which ultimately end in a prayer of hope. Psalm 22 A prayer of hope and the victory of hope in Jesus resurrection. So let's just go ahead and take a moment. Pay attention to your heart, where you're feeling moved and called. And now let us pray. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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The first sorrowful mystery is the agony in the garden. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.